Sohár Anikó (szerk.)

Tripliciter dicere

Szokott és szokatlan fordítási jelenségek

1 Introduction

According to Theodore F. Sheckels, “[a]s a popular icon within the national culture, Anne Shirley ranks right up there with the moose, the beaver, the Mountie, and the Habs” (189), the latter one referring to the professional hockey team based in Montreal. Lucy Maud Montgomery’s books gained immediate popularity in Canada and in the US, and in a few decades, the Anne series became well known worldwide. Through her books, the transferred the image of Canada, specifically Prince Edwards Island, reached the furthest corner of the world. “By 1925, translations into other languages were expanding her readership in Sweden, Holland, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Australia, and France” (Rubio 2008: 2). These translation trajectories vary, however. This case study traces the path of her books into Hungary, as these books entered the target country after 1989, with a great delay, and focuses on the Hungarian publisher, as well as the translator who became Montgomery’s Hungarian voice.

In order to study translation trajectories, the sociology of translation provides tools for us to examine translation as a social practice and draws on analytical methods of sociology. Leading sociologists have encouraged the use of the multi-level field approach to investigate inequalities between economic, cultural and political contexts of translations (e.g. Heilbron and Sapiro 2007, Sapiro 2008, van Es and Heilbron 2015). Gisele Sapiro, pointing out the relevance of Bourdieu’s earlier work, calls for research on the macro, meso and micro levels. Regarding the interrelatedness of the field of publishing and translation, Sapiro points out that

[a]t the macro level, it can be combined with the core-periphery model to understand not only the flows of translation from one language to another but also the kind of works translated (genres or categories, commercial versus upmarket) according to the economic, political and cultural power relations between countries or linguistic communities. At the mezzo level, publishers’ strategies can be analyzed in the light of the relevant field (national or international markets like the francophone, anglophone, germanophone) and of their elective affinities based on the homology between different national or linguistic publishing fields. Comparing lists and series, along with evidence from archives, offers an empirical basis for analyzing these strategies. Finally, at the micro level, the process of selecting and translating one particular book or the work of a single author can be carefully investigated, while taking into account the constraints imposed on the translator by the publisher and the specific stakes (economic, political and/or cultural) that determine its importation and reception (Sapiro 2008: 163–164).

Apart from the macro-meso-micro level enquiry, the collected data will also be examined through the concept of culture moving in “bundles” or “assamblages” (Rajaram and Zararia 2009, Tsing 2005), which “bundles” are made up of expectations, prestige, or associations with other cultural products. In case of literary transfer, part of the “bundle” that the title travels with can be – among others – an audiovisual adaptation, a piece of music or a theatre play, which are likely to boost the sales of books (Thompson 2010). To benefit from this synergy, the publishers often market the transferred book with a cultural bundle frame (Kovács 2025).

Montgomery’s books have been translated into more than 40 languages worldwide. The academic scholarship relating to L. M. Montgomery (e.g. the Journal of L. M. Montgomery Studies, scholarly publications archived by the L. M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island, the L. M. Montgomery Collection at the University of Guleph) offer insight into research into the topic of international circulation of Montgomery’s books, but the translation trajectory into Hungarian language has not been explored. The next section aims to only touch upon a few translation trajectories without the attempt to be comprehensive, before focusing on the details of the Hungarian case.

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2026

ISBN: 978 963 664 228 0

Irodalom Nyelvészet

A kötet tizennégy fordítástudományi tanulmányt vonultat föl, négy részben. Az első rész a fordítás és egyetem alcímet viseli, három tanulmánya a fordítás és oktatás témakörét járja körbe két kísérlet és egy utánkövetés formájában. A második rész három fordítástudományi elemzést tartalmaz, melyek közül kettő a műfordítók helyzetét vizsgálja, a harmadik pedig magát a fordítástudomány tárgyát osztályozza. A harmadik rész konkrét műfordításokra összpontosít és három esettanulmányt sorakoztat föl: a példák egy olasz történelmi regény angol, német és magyar fordításai, illetve a kanadai-magyar műfordítási áramlatból, valamint egy hazai irodalmi együttműködésből származnak. A negyedik rész öt, kiemelkedő jelentőségű, eredetileg angolul írt fordítástudományi munka magyar fordítását tartalmazza, amelyeket a Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem fordító és tolmács mesterszakos hallgatói, illetve fordítástudományi kutatásokat végző doktoranduszai készítettek.

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